A to Z of Software Methodologies
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A to Z of Software Methodologies

In response to a recent 'Definitive' List of Software Development Methodologies I thought I ought to post my own A-Z of software methodologies:

Can you tell me what I'm missing?)

ADD  Asshole driven development - team lead badly out of touch, yet never wrong
BDD Build driven Development - builds it does? check it in you should
CDD Competition driven development - GOOG and AAPL have one, we need one too
Checkin driven Development - boss measures success by checkin count, more==better
DDD Database driven Design - objects enslaved by related rows
EDD Education driven Development - Ruby newbie, but i'll learn
Entertainment driven Development - maybe we will fail, but by god we'll have a blast
FDD Fear driven development - if we don't add feature number 1 million and 3, we may lose a customer
Fantasy driven development - shipping on time, feature complete, zero bugs, free of charge
GDD Golf driven development - ceo heard a new buzzterm while on golf course
HDD Hatred driven Development - strong team plus clear goals forged around common enemy
Heisenberg driven development - cannot be defined without altering the meaning
IDD Industry driven development - never aim at the ass end of a duck
JDD Java driven development - "i don't know the problem, but i know the solution is java"-style thinking
KDD Knowledge driven development - we are wise and our product is awesome
Knife driven development - code it or i'll cut you
LDD Luncheon driven development - drunken lunch, big idea, now we're sleepy
MDD Munchie driven development - team too stoned to stop coding
NDD Nacho driven development - then they ate some nachos
ODD Object driven development - don't stop until your OO hierarchy is 57 levels deep
PDD Panic driven development - works for me
Paradigm driven development - synthesizes an ecosystem of evolving collaboration architectures
QDD Quantum driven development - only works on hardware that hasn't yet been invented
RDD Research driven development - this time for sure!
SDD Sales driven development - head salesguy already promised it, now we gotta build it
TDD ToDo driven development - aka stepwise refinement
UDD Underwear driven development - seat of the pants approach
VDD Voodoo driven development - if it doesn't compile, just stick another pin in it
WDD "Works on my machine" driven development - formerly, Rapid Application Development
Whiteboard driven development - see Domain Driven Design
XDD Xml driven development - "xml is like violence, if it's not working you need more of it"
YDD Y-Combinator driven development - (equals (name Paul Graham) (plus lisp god))
ZDD Zen driven development - you don't drive the development, the development drives you




'Jexorro' on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:24:41 GMT, sez:

Test Driven Development: You're so endeared with the idea of test-first that you'll sacrifice productivity, profitability and common sense to hammer every round peg into this tetrazoidal hole.



'HitScan' on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:23 GMT, sez:

An improvement for QDD:

QDD Quantum driven development - It only works when nothing is interacting with it, after which it disappears.



'Kevin Dente' on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:29 GMT, sez:

GDD - Google Driven Development. Building an application by stitching together code snippets found in web searches.



'mike' on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:32:07 GMT, sez:

BDD: Baby-driven development - What Scott Hanselman is doing. :-)

BDD: Boredom-driven development - Nothing on TV tonight.

EDD: Ego-driven development - "Oh, yeah?! I can do that, only better!"

FDD: Fashion-driven development - "Everyone is doing dynamic languages! We need to do those too!"

MDD: Marketing-driven development - We promised it, you better code it.

MDD: Musing-driven development - "I wonder if this would work?"

TDD: Tradeshow-driven development -- what can we get done by PDC?



'CAD bloke' on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:56:29 GMT, sez:

NDD: Noob Driven development - Learning to code by doing enterprise level development with code snippets from books.

BDD: Beer Driven Development - "Must finish code so I can drink myself to death off the but-me-a-beer PayPal links."

iDD: iPhone Driven Development - with caveats. Stay inside the square.

FDD: Flash Driven Development - Pointless but bloody hell, it looks great. Once.

DDD: Dollar Driven Development - the base class from which all development is derived.



'Chris Ammerman' on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:43:43 GMT, sez:

> ZDD Zen driven development - you don't drive the development, the development drives you

Hmmm... Are you sure that's not YSDD: Yakov Smirnov Driven Development?



'Tim' on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:53:00 GMT, sez:

CYADD - We've all been there...



'Maria' on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:12:23 GMT, sez:

Lol... I was doing research on software development methodology and this is what I've got.



'kmilo' on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:55:39 GMT, sez:

Thanks, I use to say no Software Methodology were used at my workplace, but after reading your post I found we do SDD



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